Rise: Battle Lines

This game could be something but with no single player mod other then 3 short fights or multi players to play multi player, this game sucks all around. I really have no idea what all the thumbs up are for, with no single player mod as was promissed and with no one online playing, WTF are all the thumbs up for, did we get paid to lie? UPDATE DEC 11/12/2016 Read a post today posted back on Oct 2/2015 with a DEV reporting that they finally heard the cummunity and was going add a single player mode into the game, " which was advertised to be in the game from day 1 and never was ". So i reinstalled the game today and low and behold, yup, still no single player mode, just the 3 AI's, easy, medium and hard, " which had ALREADY been in the game since release " people who dont know that. so i posted this and this was my answer from the DEVS: Ban notification from a Rise: Battle Lines developer — 7 minutes ago You have been banned from Rise: Battle Lines Discussions You have been banned fr...

Solid little multiplayer title. If you like to get a quick fill on a multiplayer turn based strategy game then I highly recommend this title. It is very simple and straightforward but it will definitely get you thinking as to how to outsmart your oppenents. For $5.00 you cannot go wrong in my opinion. WARNING If you are looking for an in depth single player experience then this game is not for you and clearly it was never designed to be. It does what it does pretty well and doesn't pretend to be something it isn't.

PRO: - Simultaneous turns - Drafting CON: - Not variety enough - Too slow - No campaign

So this is an OK mini turn based game. All battles are fought on a terrain free hexagon board. There are five different kinds of units plus your general for 6 kinds in total. The distribution of the units is random for each battle, the only constant being that you will always have your general. The graphics and animations work for the kind of game this is and the sound effects that are there work. I found it a little tricky to figure out how to properly use my range units in the simultaneous turn system, but once I got the hang of it the game was dirt simple. Overall the experience was OK. However I cannot recommend this game. First, there is almost no single player content. There are three different fights that are almost identical. The bulk of the game revolves around multiplayer. I sat waiting for another opponent for 10 minutes while watching YouTube videos and the matchmaker never found another player. The game is pretty simple for the asking price, and it is multi-p...

This is a hard negative review to give, because as I think RISE is a fine little digital board game. It's clean, sharp, simple, and everything else the positive reviews assert. But in order to earn achievements, the game requires you to play online with constant pings back to a server—likely owned and managed by the developer. It appears the game has fallen into maintenance mode. This server is prohibitively slow to respond, even when playing against local AI in challenge mode on your own machine. What's worse, it seems at times that this server goes to sleep and becomes unresponsive. If you quit out of your game, you forfeit and lose hard won points towards the last 2 or 3 achievements. So you are forced to wait for the server to time out and then get the error message and "retry" dialogue box allowing you to reping the server. As a result, each game, which should last about 5-8 minutes, can easily take twice as long if not more. With the diminishing returns of points earned as yo...

Abandoned game, no updates, cannot connect to servers. Do not waste your money, you won't even get as little as an achievement for playing against an AI, because you are not connected to their servers.

Fun strategy game for when you only have 15 minutes to play. Absolutely love the presentation. Very addictive too!

I cannot tell if it properly works for multi-player mode,but for single player, it freezes when trying to deploy your first troop on the hexgrid, with CPU toping at 100%. Clearly a disapointement.

Ive played my fair share of difficult and hard to learn games. Ive grown up with the mean games you could find on the NES/SNES and similar ones. But Ive seldomly felt as lost as when Ive clicked "issue orders" in this game. This game is just really really random and it makes you feel really bad about the choices you make because theres very little to know about what happens at what time and why. What the game taught me that I couldn't have explained to myself: - all of your units lose 1 hitpoint if your general dies - Attacking units deal more damage than defending units What the game taught me that I couldve explained to myself: - units have different place in the row (something like initiative) - units have hitpoints - units have more initiative closer to the general What it didnt tell me: - how close to the general do they have to be? - can you tell units to walk here and attack there? If not why do the crossbowmen say cannot attack after moving and the bowmen say cannot move afte...

Very well worth the asking price (especially if on sale) mostly used for multiplayer, very little singleplayer. Would love a campaign to go along with it